· Private foundation
Sawyer & Jean Marglous Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Judes | $15,000 |
| Flance Early Lrn Center | $11,952 |
| Our Lady of the Lake | $10,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Heifer International | $5,000 |
| Satement Cancer Center | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| Alzheimers Assoc | $3,200 |
| Portland Art Museum | $3,000 |
| Mult Athletic Foundation | $3,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $2,500 |
| Friends of the Public Library | $2,500 |
| Meals on Wheels | $2,000 |
| Michelle's Love | $2,000 |
| Jesuit School of Portland | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FMFLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER5× · 2017–2023 · $82k · revenue +70%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC4× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +145%
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM7× · 2019–2025 · $26k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- OLOur Lady of Lake Schoolone grant, 2021 · $15k
- LOLady of Lake Schoolone grant, 2022 · $13k
- PJPortl Japanese Gardenone grant, 2022 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
Portland museum is an innovative and compelling neighborhood museum. the museum boldly weaves exhibitions, performances, collections, and educational programs to excite, challenge and illuminate our neighbors, visitors, and participants…
The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Founded in 1917, the seattle art museum (sam) connects art to life. as the leading visual art institution in the pacific northwest, sam draws on its global collections, powerful special exhibitions, numerous installations, and dynamic…
The luminarium opened in april 2023 with more than 125 interactive exhibits and a kaleidoscope of engaging programs focused on science, art, and human perception. the luminarium is an innovative community space and learning environment…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Art Museum Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Shriners Hospital for Children. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 120 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI APPLESEED ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APPLESEED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Centene Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Edward Jones Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Edward Jones Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Bellwether Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · St Louis Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Sawyer & Jean Marglous Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.